Crepis capillaris

Erect annual or biennial, to c. 120 cm high, sometimes shortly rhizomatous or stoloniferous; young stems with fine pale crinkled hairs (absent from older growth), often also with spreading gland-tipped hairs to c. 0.5 mm long. Rosette and lower cauline leaves petiolate, c. oblanceolate, dentate to pinnatifid, mostly 5–20 cm long and 1–3 cm wide, glabrous or with scattered simple hairs near midrib; upper cauline leaves sessile, c. auriculate, entire or with a few basal teeth. Capitula c. campanulate, erect in bud; bracts on outer surface with sparse to dense cobwebby hairs and erect glandular hairs, glabrous on inner surface; outer bracts linear; inner bracts linear to lanceolate, 5–8 mm long; ligules to c. 9 mm long; receptacle glabrous. Cypselas 1.5–2.5 mm long, not beaked, smooth to scabrous; pappus bristles in 2 rows. Flowers Nov.–May.